Christian Couder <christian.cou...@gmail.com> writes: >>> Perhaps we should declare that config will be the one and only way >>> in the future and start deprecating the command line option way. >>> That will remove the need for two to interact with each other. > > That would be my preferred solution as I think it is the simplest in > the end for users. > Also, as Duy wrote above, one can always use something like "git -c > core.splitIndex= ...", which by the way can work for any command, not > just "update-index". > > Anyway we would have to introduce core.splitIndex first, and it > wouldn't make sense to have a different behavior between > --[no-]split-index and --[no-]untracked-cache in the meantime before > they are deprecated and eventually removed. > > So let's just go with the implementation in this series, which is > similar to --[no-]untracked-cache, and let's plan to deprecate > --[no-]split-index and --[no-]untracked-cache in a later patch series.
Sounds like we have a plan. Thanks.
